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CETERA
COMMENDATIONS
REACTION
RESENTMENT
WHIRLIGHOSTS
WRIGHT AND VIRTUE
By Scott Lo•ald
For some excellent and better-than-
ordinary chapel programs the
last few weeks, commendations should
go to someone—probably to both
the participants and whoever con-ceived
the idea. First of the group,
a talkie of Kraushaar's education
class, by the emphasis on the past,
gave a vivid contrast of schools yes-terday
and today. It is interesting,
and altogether proper, to get a per-spective
of the forward march of
education during our history as a
territory and then as a state.
* *
Whenever Prof. H. M. "Pat"
Blegen unburdens himself on a
chapel program, there is an inevit-able
reaction of both antagonism
and approbation—but seldom of
apathy or indifference. Which alone
shows the merit of his fulminations.
His remarks on Renaissance Art
were interesting enough, but a per-sonal
opiniot• is that they were mere-ly
the vehicle for his more chal-lenging
castigation of the typical
student body's artistic achievements
—or rather lack of artistic achieve-ments.
As he said, the rest is "all
in the books."
* *
But every once in awhile you run
across those poor souls who are now
and ever "asleep at the switch."
Such were two coeds who were too
preoccupied with other affairs to
even resent those Blegenistic thrusts.
The only consolation is that they
were working French exercises in-stead
of doodling away on their con-stant
knitting.
* *
Speaking of resentment, it is per-haps
true that it frequently rises out
of a conscious dislike of recognizing
certain rather unpleasant truths—or
rather of being forced to recognize
them. Human nature has the ten-dency
to cake a few falacious catch
phrases and bathe them with an aura
of inevitability, hence respectability,
and - jump to the startling con-clusion
that that proverbial state of
apathetic blissfulness, which rumor
has it is engendered by ignorance,
shouldn't be criticised or _ questioned.
But then there is a difference between
ignorance and indifference; the in-ate
should not be confused with an
acquired state of perpetual passivity.
* S *
For a well performed, well bal-anced
program, plus the novel ex-pository
remarks of the director, the
student body owes a debt of grati-tude
to the college symphony or-chestra
and its conductor. The me-chanics
of a symphonic group are
too often neglected, with the result
that an audience, as is natural, fails
to appreciate what it cannot un-derstand.
And a rather irrelevant
aide is that it is reassuring that
Straus' "Blue Danube" is still ac-cepted
in respectable circles. When
Ray Noble "swung" his own inter-pretation
the other evening, we be-gan
to have our doubts. I imagine
some of the old masters have been
setting up quite a rattling commo-tion
underground the last few
months with their skeletonal whirr
ings in rather cramped biers.
* *
More chapel programs should be
given over to a consideration of the
specific arts and sciences. Blegen,
Guderyahn, and Youngdahl showed
that art and music could be pre-sented
in both an educational and
enjoyable manner. The same should
be done with literature, science, his-tory,
sociology, political thought, and
what have you. Not that such pro-grams
would "educate" anyone in
one hour, but they would open doors
to new interests.
Dr. Youngdahl's lecture, combined
with recordings, was interesting from
two standpoints: despite cyclical re-trogressions,
such as "Flat Foot Floo-gie,"
et al., there has been a steady
advance in the development of har-mony
and arrangement; and that
advance, as showed by recordings,
illuminated by comments, was made
graphically clear. A common error
has been the thought by some that
music is more or less static. That
there was a renaissance in music,
or rather a naissance, indicates the
scope of that flowering of all cul-tural
and esthetic expression.
* *
The other night, over a cup (s)
of coffee, talk turned to old books,
that is old by modern conceptio-and
Harold Bell Wright came into
the discussion, Do you recall "When
a Man's a Man " "The Mine With
the Iron Door," and "That Printer
of Udells?" I re-read the latter last
summer and was rather surprised
that at one time I enjoyed Mr.
Wright's mawkish sentimentality and
overdrawn pathos. I suppose it is
all right to reward virtue in books
—it has to be rewarded some place
—but when Mr. Wright rewards it,
he does it in a flash of lightning
and the crash of thunderbolts. There
is no beating around the bush in
Mr. Wright's stories; the man never
heard of subtlety and has such little
faith in the intelligence of his read-ers
that to date he has never left
anything unsaid. Zane Grey and
James Oliver Curwood, like Wright.
rewarded virtue, God bless them,
but there was a robustness about
their works that didn't sicken you
of sentimP-t, the "nicey" nice and
a pseudo-introspection.
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THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR
Vol. XIX-- AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1938
No. 1.3 /
Religious Emphasis Week Follows Thanksgiving Recess
Education head Addresses
Convention Concerning
School Units
Gov. - Elect Opens Sessions
Sioux Falls Has Largest
Delegation; Aberdeen
1940 Host
Dr. C. NI. Granskou and Prof.
R. W. Kraushaar are in Mitchell
this week in attendance at the SDEA
convention there.
Dr. Granskou is a member of
the appraisal committee and Prof.
Kraushaar is speaking on Larger
School Units."
Supt. C. C. Jacobson of Canton,
for president; Theodore Nickisch of
Belle Fourche for vice president; and
Supt. W. I. Early for treasurer were
elected officers without opposition
at Monday's sessions.
Early was elected treasurer for the
fifteenth successive time.
Aberdeen was unopposed in its
bid for the 1940 state convention.
Statewide gatherings will be held
every two years hereafter, with dis-trict
conventions being held in al-ternate
years.
While actual figures in attendance
were not released, estimates set the
number "at well over 3,000."
Gov.-Elect Harlan Bushfield wel-comed
the teachers at the first gen-eral
session Monday morning' Mrs.
Gertrude E. Flyte, president of the
South Dakota branch of the Nation-al
Council of Parents and Teachers
also addressed the group.
An amendment adopted by the
council provides for a department
of Indian education in the SDEA.
The 225 educators from Sioux
Falls made up the largest delegation
registered at the session.
Student Publications
Represented at S. D.
College Press Meet
Six representatives of the Mirror
and Edda, campus publications, were
in Mitchell on Friday and Saturday
for the annual meeting of the South
Dakota Collegiate Press association
at Dakota Wesleyan university.
The opening session of the meet
began Friday morning. Under the
general heading, "The newspaper
from street to press," reporting and
column writing, editors, editorials,
sports, photography, and advertising
were discussed. The afternoon ses-sion
included round table discussions
for newspaper editors, business man-agers,
annual editors, and sports
editors.
At a banquet on Friday evening
Major 0. W. Coursey was toastmas-ter,
W. R. Ronald, editor of the
Mitchell Republic, and Esther Rus-sell,
South Dakota poet, addressed
the delegates.
Papers from the ten schools rep-resented
were judged on the basis
of makeup, context, advertising, and
style. Defending honors won last
year State college, first place; Au-gustana,
second place, and Sioux
Falls, third place.
Delegates from Augustana were
Spencer Sandvig, associate editor of
the Mirror; Margaret Allen, society
editor; Marion Utley, art editor of
the yearbook; Leonard Lee, business
manager; Harmond Halvorson, ad-vertising
manager; and Borghild
Dahl, faculty adviser for school pub-lications.
The 1939 conference will be held
at Northern Normal and Industrial
School, Aberdeen.
Two Augustana students have real-ized
the dream of "life in a trailer."
Donald Hanson and Harris Hinder-aker,
sophomores from Astoria, are
the two. They are located just south
of the gym. Free of rent and free
of taxes, the trailer, temporarily con-verted
into a stationary affair, be-sides
having the conveniences of a
modern home has the advantages of
a private campus dwelling.
"They don't give these things away
of course," said Don, who owns the
trailer, "but I figure on selling it
when I get through school. Besides,
I'll make a little renting it in the
summer months. They rent out at
$25 a month so it won't be so
bad."
With Don working forty hours a
week down at the Sioux Tire and
Battery company where he pur-chased
the trailer, besides going to
school, the main housekeeping duties
have fallen at the feet of Mr. Hin-deraker.
We say "fallen at his feet" be-cause
this reporter noticed that the
house lacked the blessed presence
of a broom. As yet however, it
looked right clean. Only the cor-
In Memoriam
To many of the people on the
Augustana campus the death of
George B. Myrum is a personal loss.
To the rest of the school the ter-rible
accident which killed the be-loved
coach and two other Gustav-ians,
Karl Olsen and Donald V.
Anderson, is a tragedy which is
measurable both in its sadness
and in the close relationship between
this school and Gustavus Adolphus.
To those who knew George My-rum
personally. his death brought
forth both sad and happy recollec-tions
of a man with a well aimed
and successful life. Perhaps his
great character can best be expressed
in the words of Wendell Butcher,
Gustavus grid great, who once said,
"On the field George is a tough
driver, but he's the best friend a
fellow's got."
George B. Myrum will be remem-bered
as a great fellow, and a great
coach of a great school.
Cry-Babies Cavort
At Campus Social
College students threw off their
mantles of learning and their men-tal
mortar boards to be "Kids" again
on Saturday evening when the stu-dent
association social committee
gave its all-school kid party in the
gymnasium.
No kids over twelve were admit-ted
to the party of which Ayleene
Tollevs, chairman of the social
board, and Edith Hugill, chairman
of the Big-Little Sister organization,
were co-chairmen.
Heading the neighborhood gags
for the evening's fun were Huckle-berry
Finn (Kermit Almos) , Baby
Snooks (Leland Hurlbut), Pudden-head
Wilson ( Ansel Thompson ) ,
Butch McGuire (George Menke ) ,
Tom Sawyer (Everett Brue ) , and
Percy Van Schyler (Kenneth Gel-hu
Prizes were awarded to the cutest
and coyest lad and lassy, the most
freckled couple, and the funniest
boy and girl. Two door prizes and
a grand prize to the "most laddist"
gang were awarded.
The program for the evening was
in charge of Kid Kenny Raschke
who introduced the famous Beeler
Boys and Chilson's terrible trio of
kid actors which includes Clara Chil-son,
Phyllis Anderson, and Marion
Utley, with Miss Anderson starring
as Shirley Temple. Ardys Pedder-son
played for community singing
and songs generally associated with
the school room.
Food suitable to grade school pal-ates
was distributed by Vivian Mu-chow,
Marian Evanson, Leonard
Lee, Ruth Kingsbury, and Stanley
Thompson. Checking dolls and re-turning
lost children to their own-ers
were the tasks of Margaret Ver-coe,
Kenneth Gelhaus, Virginia Nes-sa,
Jean Kittleson, and Leonard Ol-son.
Former Teacher Killed
In Chicago Accident
Mrs. Charles A. Davis, a fanner
teacher of French here, who in re-cent
years has resided in Chicago,
was instantly killed when struck by
a taxicab in that city recently. Slae
taught at Augustana between the
years of 1922 and 1927.
Mrs. Davis, a native of Paris,
France, was walking to her home
from church carrying an umbrella
during a heavy rainstorm when she
was struck by the cab.
A son, John Davis, also well
known here as a musician, is now
with the Kansas City symphony or-chestra.
She is survived by her son
and husband.
nets showed any promise of becom-ing
laden with old mother dust.
Mr. Hanson was of the opinion
that "I guess this house needs the
womanly touch. It's too bad. I
thought Harris would make a good
housekeeper."
About this time we expected the
conventional "buy me a new fur coat
and I'll go to work" argument but
instead Hinderaker edged over be-side
the sink and we couldn't help
noticing that hidden under the sink
cover were the unwashed breakfast
dishes.
Nevertheless, they were both quite
proouudd of their housekeeping tech-nique
as they divulged that they
make their beds in two minutes and
unmake them in one.
In that the trailer is equipped with
a good oil burner they anticipate
but little difficulty in the coming
winter months.
"We'll be as snug as a bug in a
rug," said Hinderaker but it was
of this reporter's opinion that they
had better equip themselves with a
shovel because it seems inevitable
that some snowy winter morning
they will have to revert back to the
old pioneer days and shovel their
way out.
Medical Scholarships
To Be Prize Awards
Announcement has been received
of a new plan of Scholarship grant
that Harvard university is introduc-ing
in its Medical School and is of-fering
to the incoming classes.
From the announcement the fol-lowing
quotation is of interest:
"These scholarships will be awarded
as 'prizes' to those members of the
incoming class who, in the estima-tion
of the appropriate committees,
are deserving of them. The selec-tion
of these prize scholars will be
made without reference to financial
need, but the amount of the stipend
awarded to each scholar will be in
proportion to his actual necessities,
except that a certain minimum award
will be made to all prize scholars.
In the event that a prize scholar
has need of it, the amount of the
award will be sufficient to cover his
essential expenses in the Medical
school up to a maximum of $1,200.
"Each applicant for admission to
the first year class of the Harvard
Medical School will be considered as
a candidate for a National Schol-arship
and individual application
cannot be made.
Students who may be interested
in this or in any !natters that con-cern
entrance into medical schools
should consult Dr. J. A. Froemke
who is Augustana faculty adviser
in this field. Many difficulties in
their pre-professional preparation
may be avoided, if the counsel of
the adviser is sought early.
Hoyem, Hogenson, Blegen
Will Discuss Papers
At Midland Confab
Dr. A. G. Hoyem, Prof. H. M.
Blegen and Miss Selma Hogensen will
each give a paper at the conference
for teachers of Lutheran church col-leges
to be 'held at Midland college,
Fremont, Neb., Nov. 25 to 27.
Prof. ".` Z-7'. "The
Special Contribution of the Modern
Languages to the Lutheran College";
Miss Hogensen will explain "Ex-change
of Duplicates and Inter-
Library Loans"; and Dr. Hoyem will
discuss "The Importance of Mathe-matics
to the Field of Physics."
Last year the conference met at
Luther college. The Norwegian Lu-theran
church and the Ohio Synod
send the majority of faculty mem-bers.
Others attending the conference
are 0. M. Hofstad, Stanley Olsen,
J. G. Berdahl, I. B. Hauge, 0. A.
Tollevs, Evelyn Nilsen, Helen Farley
and 0. Tonning.
Among the principal speakers at
the conference will be Pres. Rowland
Hayes of the University of Omaha,
Pres. Bernhard M. Christensen of
Augsburg college, and Pres. H. F.
Martin of Midland college.
Parent Education Is Speech
Theme of Mrs. Betty Allan
Mrs. Betty Allan was guest
speaker at the recent meeting of the
LDR which was held in Ladies' hall.
Mrs. Allan talked on Parent Educa-tion
and cited many interesting cases
in this connection. A trio composed
of Bernice Jensen, Verna Hesby,
and Harriet Halvorson sang "Lift
Thine Eyes."
An interesting skit concerning the
LDR treasure chests was given by
several members. Those taking part
were Dolly Anderson, Marion Dirks,
Genevieve Fiedler, Marguerite Swen-son,
Ruth Stumley, Eleanor Kalberg,
and Alvera Dethmess. Sylvia Eke-land
was chairman of the program.
Homemaking was the topic Mrs.
L. A. Pierson discussed at last eve-ning's
meeting. Viola Sogge was
program chairman. Tentative pians
for a Christmas pageant to be given
early in December were discussed.
First Lutheran Choir
Sings Sacred Concert
The First Lutheran church choir
under the direction of its conductor,
Clifford J. Olson, presented a sacred
concert at 8 o'clock on Sunday eve-ning
at the church. Alvina Palm-quist,
popular contralto and teacher
of voice at Sioux Falls college, was
guest soloist.
The choir, with Joyce Steinbach
as accompanist, sang "Jubilate
Amen" (K jerulf ) ; "0 Bread of
Life," arranged by Christensen, in
which the incidental solo was taken
by Leonard Lee, baritone; "0 Sing
Unto the Lord" (Hassler) ; "Now
Let Every Tongue Adore Thee"
(Bash) ) ; "Surely He Hach Born Our
Griefs" (Lotti ) ; "0 Blessed and
Ever Gracious Lord" ( Tschaikow-sky
) ; "Praise Ye" (Palmer) ; "God
Is a Spirit" (Kopyloff ) ; and "Hal-lelujah
Amen" (Handel) .
Miss Palmquist was heard in two
numbers, "He Was Despised," from
Handel's "Messiah," and "The Vir-gin's
Slumber Song" by Reger.
Reports Brought Group
By L.S.A. Delegation
Reports from the Northwest Re-gional
Lutheran Students association
conclave held in Valley City, N. D.,
the previous weekend were given at
LSU Sunday evening, Nov. 13, by
Harmond Halvorson, Virgil Bjerke
and Glenn Bragstad.
Ethelmae Ristvedt led in devotions.
Hazel Stegen sang a solo "How
Lovely Are Thy Dwellings" ( Liddle) ,
and Helen Ytterness played a piano
solo, "My Joys" (Liszt) .
Harmond Halvorson explained the
constitution and history of the LSA
and of the LSU; Virgil Bjerke re-viewed
the highlights of the con-ference;
and Glenn Bragstad talked
on his personal views of the con-vention.
Education Week Has
Special Observance
Three special programs commem-orated
National Education Week,
Nov. 7 through Nov. 11.
Tuesday, Nov. 8, Rolf Mickleson,
Harold Froslie, Carl Sandbeck and
Prof. R. W. Kraushaar broadcast
information about the permanent
school fund.
Supt. S. S. Shaw of Lennox,
spoke Wednesday morning, Nov. 9,
on the "Evidences of Education."
"A college education should give the
graduated precision in the use of
the mother tongue, a sympathetic
consideration of the other man and
greater effort and results in the
terms of industry," he said.
Miss Bubbers, a student of Prof.
R. J. Guderyahn, from the Lowell
school, played a violin solo.
The following morning "The
March of Education" was presented
in a classroom skit by the entire
philosophy of education class and
Prof. Kraushaar.
Little Sisters Hosts
At Backward Party
"Come dressed backwards and do
everything backwards" was the theme
of one of the best parties the Au-gustana
girls have ever attended.
The affair was given by the Little
Sisters in honor of their Big Sisters
who helped them with registration
and orientation difficulties early in
the fall.
Pumpkin pie with whipped cream
on the crust, eaten with the backs
of the forks, started the party out
in grand style. After refreshments
the girls left the dining club and
adjourned to the gym. Here the
girls played such group games as
Three Deep and Drop the Hand-kerchief.
A real dramatic skit called
"Nlellerdrammer" was next presented.
The heroine, Avis Bekke; the hero,
Marian Dirks; the villain, Wilhel-m
ina Kleync, and the reader, Ruth
Boyd, proved once again that pan-tomime
can still draw the laughs.
Delores Skorheim and the freshman
trio composed of Ruth Stumley, Vera
Dethmers, and Elenore Kalberg also
appeared on the program. After the
program the girls spent the remain-ing
part of the evening playing table
tennis, ping pang and deck tennis.
Genevieve Fiedler, who is president
of the freshman girls, was general
chairman of the party. The enter-tainment
committee was composed
of Delores Skorheim, Ethelmae Rist-vedt,
Doris Larson, and Bernice
Winkler. Members of the refresh-ment
committee were Marguerite
Sevenson, Peggy Blatherwick, Esther
Haroldson, and Ruth Boyd, while
Oriette Johnson, Mavis Potas, Mar-garet
Stende, Norma Olson and
Glenora Halter were on the clean-up
committee. Miss Mannes and
Miss Farley were guests at the back-wards
party.
Rev. Nils Boe Helped Place
Augustana On Present
Campus Location
Rt. Rev. Nils Boe, one of the
early workers in the Lutheran church
in the Northwest died quietly Sat-urday
afternoon at his home, 1504
S. Duluth ave. He was 77.
A pioneer of the gospel in Mon-tana,
he was the first Scandinavian
Lutheran minister in that state. He
established churches at Missoula,
Helena, Great Falls, Butte, and
other places.
Helped Establish College
He kept busy in all lines of church
work leaving a great record of serv-ice.
He helped establish the Sioux
Falls hospital, later Sioux Valley
hospital, and was a factor in estab-lishing
Augustana college here.
He was born in Norway April
1, 1861 and after the death of
his father he came to the United
States at the age of five years with
his mother. They settled at North-field,
Minn., where. Ire ta-erecl
Olaf academy, later St. Olaf col-lege,
and was graduated in 1880.
Later he attended Luther college,
Decorah, Ia., and completed the
three-year course at the Luther Theo-logical
seminary in Madison, Wis.,
in 1889.
Came Here In 1892
In March, 1892, Rev. Boe rook
over the St. Olaf pastorate in Sioux
Falls. From 1904 until 1917 he
served the East and West Nidaros
churches and the Nidaros church
at Baltic. In 1917 he resigned as
pastor there after being elected
president of the South Dakota dis-trict
of the church, a position
which he held until 1926 when he
re , -tied due to ill health.
Over a long period of time he
was a member of the home mission
board of the Norwegian synod, and
a member of the pension board from
the time of its inception until the
merger of the three bodies.
Lays First Lutheran Cornerstone
Of interest to Sioux Falls resi-dents
is the fact that on May 3,
1925 he laid he cornerstone of the
First Lutheran church here.
Rev. Boe leaves the widow, four
daughter, and one son. Karen Boe,
a daughter, was a member of the
local faculty last year.
Funeral services will be held at
the First Lutheran church on Wed-nesday
with a high official of the
church officiating.
Rachel Field Novel Review
Given by Dahl Before Club
A review of the book "All This
and Heaven, Too" by Rachel Field
presented by Miss Borghild Dahl
marked one of the most interesting
November programs for Sioux Falls
Altrusors, who met on Thursday
noon at Shriver- Johnson's tearoom.
Miss Dahl described the varied,
but always interesting, life of a
young English governess who came
to the United States, married a
minister, and eventually became one
of the leaders in the cultural life
of New England.
Orchestra Presents Second
Concert to Student Audience
The 74 piece college orchestra,
under the direction of R. J. Gu-deryahn,
presented its second concert
of the season for the student body
Nov. 16 at 11 o'clock. The classes
were shortened so that the orchestra
had a full hour for its program.
Director Guderyahn introduced the
various sections of the orchestra to
the student body and demonstrated
the different effects that can be
produced by the sections. Before
each number was played he gave a
short account of the composer's life.
The orchestra played the follow-ing
numbers: "Coronation March"
from "The Prophet" (Meyerbeer) ;
"Overture to the Secret of Su-zanne"
(E. Wolf Perrari) ; "An-dante
Cantabile" for strings ( Tschai-kowsky
) ; "Blue Danube" ( J.
Strauss) ; and "Musical Snuff Box"
(Liadov) .
Kildahl, Knutson Speak
During Week of Special
Chapel Sessions
Seminary Students Coming
College President. to Lead
Hymn Singing During.
Evening Periods
When students and faculty re-turn
to the campus after Thanksgiv-ing
recess they will enter upon one
week of religious emphasis begin-ning
Monday, Nov. 28 and con-tinuing
until Saturday, Dec. 3.
The Rev. J. L. Kildahl, Webster,
and the Rev. Joseph Knutson, Lake
Mills, Ia., will be special speakers
for the week when the aim of the
program will be stimulation of
Christian thought and activity.
Two students from Luther The-ological
seminary, Harry Montgom-ery
of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Rueben
Wangberg, president of the LSU,
have been invited to be guests
throughout the week.
Meetings will be held during the
regular chapel period in the gym
chapel with special sessions every
evenit, tt in Old Main chapel. Dr.
Granskou will lead the hymn sing-ing
during the evening sessions.
Rev. Kildahl is the son of a for-mer
president of St. Olaf college
and faculty member at the Luther
Theological seminary in St. Paul.
Religious Emphasis Week, long
a part of Augustana program, has
always endeavored to guide the stu-dents'
minds into deeper spiritual
consciousness.
U. S. Social Security
Is Clarified by Dunn
Frank Dunn, a representative of
the social security board in Wash-ington,
D. C., gave Augustana stu-dents
a clearer knowledge of the
functions and aspects of the social
security system in a talk here Wed-nesday.
In dealing with subject from a
national standpoint he brought out
the true scope of the system. He
said, "In view of the fact that
benefits are going to start being
paid off in this state on January 1,
it will be more imperative than ever
that the people here should get a
better knowledge of the system as
it really is."
Using concrete illustrations to
bring out his points he explained
how a man would go about getting
assistance under the plan in case
he lost his job. He explained that
the person losing the job must regis-ter
at the employment •office near-est
him and they will investigate
him, that is, find out what his ca-pabilities
and abilities really are.
Then after a two weeks' waiting pe-riod
if he is still jobless the person
will receive aid amounting to one-half
of his last weekly wage before
he lost his job. Since the plan
intends only to tide a person over
a short period of unemployment
there is a restriction upon the
length of time that a person may
receive payments. In this state it is
restricted to 14 weeks.
He said that the fact that there
are two main divisions to the sys-tem
namely, (1 ) the taxes you pay
and (2) the benefits you receive,
the time when the benefits could
be paid had to be postponed until
the taxes you pay had created a
reserve upon which to draw. The
taxes which build up this reserve
are of two kinds according to Mr.
Dunn. They are, an excise tax levied
upon employers and an income tax
levied upon employees.
Mr. Dunn also explained that the
plan took care of partial employ-ment,
blind people, needy people,
dependent children and provides
health insurance and vocational re-habilitation
for those who need it.
Valley City Conclave
Elects Rogness Head
State college was chosen as the
host of the 1939 conference of the
northwest region of the Lutheran
Students association at the annual
meeting held during the weekend of
Nov. 4 at Valley City, N. D.
Burnis Rogness, seminary student
now interne at the First Lutheran
church in Brookings, was elected
president. Rogness is an Augustana
graduate. Prominent in speech cir-cles
here he served as student body
president in 1934-35.
New Members Taken
Into Int'l. Relations
World situations and influence on
foreign trade was the subject dis-cussed
by members of the Interna-tional
Relations club on Tuesday
evening. Georgia Reed and Evans
Nord were the leaders for the pro-gram.
The club took in the fol-lowing
new members: Orville
Thompson, Curtis Beecher, and
Evelyn Amdahl. Clara Chilson, pro-gram
chairman, announced that ten-tative
program subjects and leaders
would be presented at the next meet-ing.
Granskou, Kraushaar Serve S. D. E. A. RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS SPEAKERS
Rev. Joseph Knutson Rev. J. L. Kildahl
First Pioneer Church Leader Passes
Away Leaving Lifetime Record
Bliss In Trailer Is Basis of
New Housekeeping Venture

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CETERA
COMMENDATIONS
REACTION
RESENTMENT
WHIRLIGHOSTS
WRIGHT AND VIRTUE
By Scott Lo•ald
For some excellent and better-than-
ordinary chapel programs the
last few weeks, commendations should
go to someone—probably to both
the participants and whoever con-ceived
the idea. First of the group,
a talkie of Kraushaar's education
class, by the emphasis on the past,
gave a vivid contrast of schools yes-terday
and today. It is interesting,
and altogether proper, to get a per-spective
of the forward march of
education during our history as a
territory and then as a state.
* *
Whenever Prof. H. M. "Pat"
Blegen unburdens himself on a
chapel program, there is an inevit-able
reaction of both antagonism
and approbation—but seldom of
apathy or indifference. Which alone
shows the merit of his fulminations.
His remarks on Renaissance Art
were interesting enough, but a per-sonal
opiniot• is that they were mere-ly
the vehicle for his more chal-lenging
castigation of the typical
student body's artistic achievements
—or rather lack of artistic achieve-ments.
As he said, the rest is "all
in the books."
* *
But every once in awhile you run
across those poor souls who are now
and ever "asleep at the switch."
Such were two coeds who were too
preoccupied with other affairs to
even resent those Blegenistic thrusts.
The only consolation is that they
were working French exercises in-stead
of doodling away on their con-stant
knitting.
* *
Speaking of resentment, it is per-haps
true that it frequently rises out
of a conscious dislike of recognizing
certain rather unpleasant truths—or
rather of being forced to recognize
them. Human nature has the ten-dency
to cake a few falacious catch
phrases and bathe them with an aura
of inevitability, hence respectability,
and - jump to the startling con-clusion
that that proverbial state of
apathetic blissfulness, which rumor
has it is engendered by ignorance,
shouldn't be criticised or _ questioned.
But then there is a difference between
ignorance and indifference; the in-ate
should not be confused with an
acquired state of perpetual passivity.
* S *
For a well performed, well bal-anced
program, plus the novel ex-pository
remarks of the director, the
student body owes a debt of grati-tude
to the college symphony or-chestra
and its conductor. The me-chanics
of a symphonic group are
too often neglected, with the result
that an audience, as is natural, fails
to appreciate what it cannot un-derstand.
And a rather irrelevant
aide is that it is reassuring that
Straus' "Blue Danube" is still ac-cepted
in respectable circles. When
Ray Noble "swung" his own inter-pretation
the other evening, we be-gan
to have our doubts. I imagine
some of the old masters have been
setting up quite a rattling commo-tion
underground the last few
months with their skeletonal whirr
ings in rather cramped biers.
* *
More chapel programs should be
given over to a consideration of the
specific arts and sciences. Blegen,
Guderyahn, and Youngdahl showed
that art and music could be pre-sented
in both an educational and
enjoyable manner. The same should
be done with literature, science, his-tory,
sociology, political thought, and
what have you. Not that such pro-grams
would "educate" anyone in
one hour, but they would open doors
to new interests.
Dr. Youngdahl's lecture, combined
with recordings, was interesting from
two standpoints: despite cyclical re-trogressions,
such as "Flat Foot Floo-gie,"
et al., there has been a steady
advance in the development of har-mony
and arrangement; and that
advance, as showed by recordings,
illuminated by comments, was made
graphically clear. A common error
has been the thought by some that
music is more or less static. That
there was a renaissance in music,
or rather a naissance, indicates the
scope of that flowering of all cul-tural
and esthetic expression.
* *
The other night, over a cup (s)
of coffee, talk turned to old books,
that is old by modern conceptio-and
Harold Bell Wright came into
the discussion, Do you recall "When
a Man's a Man " "The Mine With
the Iron Door," and "That Printer
of Udells?" I re-read the latter last
summer and was rather surprised
that at one time I enjoyed Mr.
Wright's mawkish sentimentality and
overdrawn pathos. I suppose it is
all right to reward virtue in books
—it has to be rewarded some place
—but when Mr. Wright rewards it,
he does it in a flash of lightning
and the crash of thunderbolts. There
is no beating around the bush in
Mr. Wright's stories; the man never
heard of subtlety and has such little
faith in the intelligence of his read-ers
that to date he has never left
anything unsaid. Zane Grey and
James Oliver Curwood, like Wright.
rewarded virtue, God bless them,
but there was a robustness about
their works that didn't sicken you
of sentimP-t, the "nicey" nice and
a pseudo-introspection.
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THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR
Vol. XIX-- AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1938
No. 1.3 /
Religious Emphasis Week Follows Thanksgiving Recess
Education head Addresses
Convention Concerning
School Units
Gov. - Elect Opens Sessions
Sioux Falls Has Largest
Delegation; Aberdeen
1940 Host
Dr. C. NI. Granskou and Prof.
R. W. Kraushaar are in Mitchell
this week in attendance at the SDEA
convention there.
Dr. Granskou is a member of
the appraisal committee and Prof.
Kraushaar is speaking on Larger
School Units."
Supt. C. C. Jacobson of Canton,
for president; Theodore Nickisch of
Belle Fourche for vice president; and
Supt. W. I. Early for treasurer were
elected officers without opposition
at Monday's sessions.
Early was elected treasurer for the
fifteenth successive time.
Aberdeen was unopposed in its
bid for the 1940 state convention.
Statewide gatherings will be held
every two years hereafter, with dis-trict
conventions being held in al-ternate
years.
While actual figures in attendance
were not released, estimates set the
number "at well over 3,000."
Gov.-Elect Harlan Bushfield wel-comed
the teachers at the first gen-eral
session Monday morning' Mrs.
Gertrude E. Flyte, president of the
South Dakota branch of the Nation-al
Council of Parents and Teachers
also addressed the group.
An amendment adopted by the
council provides for a department
of Indian education in the SDEA.
The 225 educators from Sioux
Falls made up the largest delegation
registered at the session.
Student Publications
Represented at S. D.
College Press Meet
Six representatives of the Mirror
and Edda, campus publications, were
in Mitchell on Friday and Saturday
for the annual meeting of the South
Dakota Collegiate Press association
at Dakota Wesleyan university.
The opening session of the meet
began Friday morning. Under the
general heading, "The newspaper
from street to press," reporting and
column writing, editors, editorials,
sports, photography, and advertising
were discussed. The afternoon ses-sion
included round table discussions
for newspaper editors, business man-agers,
annual editors, and sports
editors.
At a banquet on Friday evening
Major 0. W. Coursey was toastmas-ter,
W. R. Ronald, editor of the
Mitchell Republic, and Esther Rus-sell,
South Dakota poet, addressed
the delegates.
Papers from the ten schools rep-resented
were judged on the basis
of makeup, context, advertising, and
style. Defending honors won last
year State college, first place; Au-gustana,
second place, and Sioux
Falls, third place.
Delegates from Augustana were
Spencer Sandvig, associate editor of
the Mirror; Margaret Allen, society
editor; Marion Utley, art editor of
the yearbook; Leonard Lee, business
manager; Harmond Halvorson, ad-vertising
manager; and Borghild
Dahl, faculty adviser for school pub-lications.
The 1939 conference will be held
at Northern Normal and Industrial
School, Aberdeen.
Two Augustana students have real-ized
the dream of "life in a trailer."
Donald Hanson and Harris Hinder-aker,
sophomores from Astoria, are
the two. They are located just south
of the gym. Free of rent and free
of taxes, the trailer, temporarily con-verted
into a stationary affair, be-sides
having the conveniences of a
modern home has the advantages of
a private campus dwelling.
"They don't give these things away
of course," said Don, who owns the
trailer, "but I figure on selling it
when I get through school. Besides,
I'll make a little renting it in the
summer months. They rent out at
$25 a month so it won't be so
bad."
With Don working forty hours a
week down at the Sioux Tire and
Battery company where he pur-chased
the trailer, besides going to
school, the main housekeeping duties
have fallen at the feet of Mr. Hin-deraker.
We say "fallen at his feet" be-cause
this reporter noticed that the
house lacked the blessed presence
of a broom. As yet however, it
looked right clean. Only the cor-
In Memoriam
To many of the people on the
Augustana campus the death of
George B. Myrum is a personal loss.
To the rest of the school the ter-rible
accident which killed the be-loved
coach and two other Gustav-ians,
Karl Olsen and Donald V.
Anderson, is a tragedy which is
measurable both in its sadness
and in the close relationship between
this school and Gustavus Adolphus.
To those who knew George My-rum
personally. his death brought
forth both sad and happy recollec-tions
of a man with a well aimed
and successful life. Perhaps his
great character can best be expressed
in the words of Wendell Butcher,
Gustavus grid great, who once said,
"On the field George is a tough
driver, but he's the best friend a
fellow's got."
George B. Myrum will be remem-bered
as a great fellow, and a great
coach of a great school.
Cry-Babies Cavort
At Campus Social
College students threw off their
mantles of learning and their men-tal
mortar boards to be "Kids" again
on Saturday evening when the stu-dent
association social committee
gave its all-school kid party in the
gymnasium.
No kids over twelve were admit-ted
to the party of which Ayleene
Tollevs, chairman of the social
board, and Edith Hugill, chairman
of the Big-Little Sister organization,
were co-chairmen.
Heading the neighborhood gags
for the evening's fun were Huckle-berry
Finn (Kermit Almos) , Baby
Snooks (Leland Hurlbut), Pudden-head
Wilson ( Ansel Thompson ) ,
Butch McGuire (George Menke ) ,
Tom Sawyer (Everett Brue ) , and
Percy Van Schyler (Kenneth Gel-hu
Prizes were awarded to the cutest
and coyest lad and lassy, the most
freckled couple, and the funniest
boy and girl. Two door prizes and
a grand prize to the "most laddist"
gang were awarded.
The program for the evening was
in charge of Kid Kenny Raschke
who introduced the famous Beeler
Boys and Chilson's terrible trio of
kid actors which includes Clara Chil-son,
Phyllis Anderson, and Marion
Utley, with Miss Anderson starring
as Shirley Temple. Ardys Pedder-son
played for community singing
and songs generally associated with
the school room.
Food suitable to grade school pal-ates
was distributed by Vivian Mu-chow,
Marian Evanson, Leonard
Lee, Ruth Kingsbury, and Stanley
Thompson. Checking dolls and re-turning
lost children to their own-ers
were the tasks of Margaret Ver-coe,
Kenneth Gelhaus, Virginia Nes-sa,
Jean Kittleson, and Leonard Ol-son.
Former Teacher Killed
In Chicago Accident
Mrs. Charles A. Davis, a fanner
teacher of French here, who in re-cent
years has resided in Chicago,
was instantly killed when struck by
a taxicab in that city recently. Slae
taught at Augustana between the
years of 1922 and 1927.
Mrs. Davis, a native of Paris,
France, was walking to her home
from church carrying an umbrella
during a heavy rainstorm when she
was struck by the cab.
A son, John Davis, also well
known here as a musician, is now
with the Kansas City symphony or-chestra.
She is survived by her son
and husband.
nets showed any promise of becom-ing
laden with old mother dust.
Mr. Hanson was of the opinion
that "I guess this house needs the
womanly touch. It's too bad. I
thought Harris would make a good
housekeeper."
About this time we expected the
conventional "buy me a new fur coat
and I'll go to work" argument but
instead Hinderaker edged over be-side
the sink and we couldn't help
noticing that hidden under the sink
cover were the unwashed breakfast
dishes.
Nevertheless, they were both quite
proouudd of their housekeeping tech-nique
as they divulged that they
make their beds in two minutes and
unmake them in one.
In that the trailer is equipped with
a good oil burner they anticipate
but little difficulty in the coming
winter months.
"We'll be as snug as a bug in a
rug," said Hinderaker but it was
of this reporter's opinion that they
had better equip themselves with a
shovel because it seems inevitable
that some snowy winter morning
they will have to revert back to the
old pioneer days and shovel their
way out.
Medical Scholarships
To Be Prize Awards
Announcement has been received
of a new plan of Scholarship grant
that Harvard university is introduc-ing
in its Medical School and is of-fering
to the incoming classes.
From the announcement the fol-lowing
quotation is of interest:
"These scholarships will be awarded
as 'prizes' to those members of the
incoming class who, in the estima-tion
of the appropriate committees,
are deserving of them. The selec-tion
of these prize scholars will be
made without reference to financial
need, but the amount of the stipend
awarded to each scholar will be in
proportion to his actual necessities,
except that a certain minimum award
will be made to all prize scholars.
In the event that a prize scholar
has need of it, the amount of the
award will be sufficient to cover his
essential expenses in the Medical
school up to a maximum of $1,200.
"Each applicant for admission to
the first year class of the Harvard
Medical School will be considered as
a candidate for a National Schol-arship
and individual application
cannot be made.
Students who may be interested
in this or in any !natters that con-cern
entrance into medical schools
should consult Dr. J. A. Froemke
who is Augustana faculty adviser
in this field. Many difficulties in
their pre-professional preparation
may be avoided, if the counsel of
the adviser is sought early.
Hoyem, Hogenson, Blegen
Will Discuss Papers
At Midland Confab
Dr. A. G. Hoyem, Prof. H. M.
Blegen and Miss Selma Hogensen will
each give a paper at the conference
for teachers of Lutheran church col-leges
to be 'held at Midland college,
Fremont, Neb., Nov. 25 to 27.
Prof. ".` Z-7'. "The
Special Contribution of the Modern
Languages to the Lutheran College";
Miss Hogensen will explain "Ex-change
of Duplicates and Inter-
Library Loans"; and Dr. Hoyem will
discuss "The Importance of Mathe-matics
to the Field of Physics."
Last year the conference met at
Luther college. The Norwegian Lu-theran
church and the Ohio Synod
send the majority of faculty mem-bers.
Others attending the conference
are 0. M. Hofstad, Stanley Olsen,
J. G. Berdahl, I. B. Hauge, 0. A.
Tollevs, Evelyn Nilsen, Helen Farley
and 0. Tonning.
Among the principal speakers at
the conference will be Pres. Rowland
Hayes of the University of Omaha,
Pres. Bernhard M. Christensen of
Augsburg college, and Pres. H. F.
Martin of Midland college.
Parent Education Is Speech
Theme of Mrs. Betty Allan
Mrs. Betty Allan was guest
speaker at the recent meeting of the
LDR which was held in Ladies' hall.
Mrs. Allan talked on Parent Educa-tion
and cited many interesting cases
in this connection. A trio composed
of Bernice Jensen, Verna Hesby,
and Harriet Halvorson sang "Lift
Thine Eyes."
An interesting skit concerning the
LDR treasure chests was given by
several members. Those taking part
were Dolly Anderson, Marion Dirks,
Genevieve Fiedler, Marguerite Swen-son,
Ruth Stumley, Eleanor Kalberg,
and Alvera Dethmess. Sylvia Eke-land
was chairman of the program.
Homemaking was the topic Mrs.
L. A. Pierson discussed at last eve-ning's
meeting. Viola Sogge was
program chairman. Tentative pians
for a Christmas pageant to be given
early in December were discussed.
First Lutheran Choir
Sings Sacred Concert
The First Lutheran church choir
under the direction of its conductor,
Clifford J. Olson, presented a sacred
concert at 8 o'clock on Sunday eve-ning
at the church. Alvina Palm-quist,
popular contralto and teacher
of voice at Sioux Falls college, was
guest soloist.
The choir, with Joyce Steinbach
as accompanist, sang "Jubilate
Amen" (K jerulf ) ; "0 Bread of
Life," arranged by Christensen, in
which the incidental solo was taken
by Leonard Lee, baritone; "0 Sing
Unto the Lord" (Hassler) ; "Now
Let Every Tongue Adore Thee"
(Bash) ) ; "Surely He Hach Born Our
Griefs" (Lotti ) ; "0 Blessed and
Ever Gracious Lord" ( Tschaikow-sky
) ; "Praise Ye" (Palmer) ; "God
Is a Spirit" (Kopyloff ) ; and "Hal-lelujah
Amen" (Handel) .
Miss Palmquist was heard in two
numbers, "He Was Despised," from
Handel's "Messiah," and "The Vir-gin's
Slumber Song" by Reger.
Reports Brought Group
By L.S.A. Delegation
Reports from the Northwest Re-gional
Lutheran Students association
conclave held in Valley City, N. D.,
the previous weekend were given at
LSU Sunday evening, Nov. 13, by
Harmond Halvorson, Virgil Bjerke
and Glenn Bragstad.
Ethelmae Ristvedt led in devotions.
Hazel Stegen sang a solo "How
Lovely Are Thy Dwellings" ( Liddle) ,
and Helen Ytterness played a piano
solo, "My Joys" (Liszt) .
Harmond Halvorson explained the
constitution and history of the LSA
and of the LSU; Virgil Bjerke re-viewed
the highlights of the con-ference;
and Glenn Bragstad talked
on his personal views of the con-vention.
Education Week Has
Special Observance
Three special programs commem-orated
National Education Week,
Nov. 7 through Nov. 11.
Tuesday, Nov. 8, Rolf Mickleson,
Harold Froslie, Carl Sandbeck and
Prof. R. W. Kraushaar broadcast
information about the permanent
school fund.
Supt. S. S. Shaw of Lennox,
spoke Wednesday morning, Nov. 9,
on the "Evidences of Education."
"A college education should give the
graduated precision in the use of
the mother tongue, a sympathetic
consideration of the other man and
greater effort and results in the
terms of industry," he said.
Miss Bubbers, a student of Prof.
R. J. Guderyahn, from the Lowell
school, played a violin solo.
The following morning "The
March of Education" was presented
in a classroom skit by the entire
philosophy of education class and
Prof. Kraushaar.
Little Sisters Hosts
At Backward Party
"Come dressed backwards and do
everything backwards" was the theme
of one of the best parties the Au-gustana
girls have ever attended.
The affair was given by the Little
Sisters in honor of their Big Sisters
who helped them with registration
and orientation difficulties early in
the fall.
Pumpkin pie with whipped cream
on the crust, eaten with the backs
of the forks, started the party out
in grand style. After refreshments
the girls left the dining club and
adjourned to the gym. Here the
girls played such group games as
Three Deep and Drop the Hand-kerchief.
A real dramatic skit called
"Nlellerdrammer" was next presented.
The heroine, Avis Bekke; the hero,
Marian Dirks; the villain, Wilhel-m
ina Kleync, and the reader, Ruth
Boyd, proved once again that pan-tomime
can still draw the laughs.
Delores Skorheim and the freshman
trio composed of Ruth Stumley, Vera
Dethmers, and Elenore Kalberg also
appeared on the program. After the
program the girls spent the remain-ing
part of the evening playing table
tennis, ping pang and deck tennis.
Genevieve Fiedler, who is president
of the freshman girls, was general
chairman of the party. The enter-tainment
committee was composed
of Delores Skorheim, Ethelmae Rist-vedt,
Doris Larson, and Bernice
Winkler. Members of the refresh-ment
committee were Marguerite
Sevenson, Peggy Blatherwick, Esther
Haroldson, and Ruth Boyd, while
Oriette Johnson, Mavis Potas, Mar-garet
Stende, Norma Olson and
Glenora Halter were on the clean-up
committee. Miss Mannes and
Miss Farley were guests at the back-wards
party.
Rev. Nils Boe Helped Place
Augustana On Present
Campus Location
Rt. Rev. Nils Boe, one of the
early workers in the Lutheran church
in the Northwest died quietly Sat-urday
afternoon at his home, 1504
S. Duluth ave. He was 77.
A pioneer of the gospel in Mon-tana,
he was the first Scandinavian
Lutheran minister in that state. He
established churches at Missoula,
Helena, Great Falls, Butte, and
other places.
Helped Establish College
He kept busy in all lines of church
work leaving a great record of serv-ice.
He helped establish the Sioux
Falls hospital, later Sioux Valley
hospital, and was a factor in estab-lishing
Augustana college here.
He was born in Norway April
1, 1861 and after the death of
his father he came to the United
States at the age of five years with
his mother. They settled at North-field,
Minn., where. Ire ta-erecl
Olaf academy, later St. Olaf col-lege,
and was graduated in 1880.
Later he attended Luther college,
Decorah, Ia., and completed the
three-year course at the Luther Theo-logical
seminary in Madison, Wis.,
in 1889.
Came Here In 1892
In March, 1892, Rev. Boe rook
over the St. Olaf pastorate in Sioux
Falls. From 1904 until 1917 he
served the East and West Nidaros
churches and the Nidaros church
at Baltic. In 1917 he resigned as
pastor there after being elected
president of the South Dakota dis-trict
of the church, a position
which he held until 1926 when he
re , -tied due to ill health.
Over a long period of time he
was a member of the home mission
board of the Norwegian synod, and
a member of the pension board from
the time of its inception until the
merger of the three bodies.
Lays First Lutheran Cornerstone
Of interest to Sioux Falls resi-dents
is the fact that on May 3,
1925 he laid he cornerstone of the
First Lutheran church here.
Rev. Boe leaves the widow, four
daughter, and one son. Karen Boe,
a daughter, was a member of the
local faculty last year.
Funeral services will be held at
the First Lutheran church on Wed-nesday
with a high official of the
church officiating.
Rachel Field Novel Review
Given by Dahl Before Club
A review of the book "All This
and Heaven, Too" by Rachel Field
presented by Miss Borghild Dahl
marked one of the most interesting
November programs for Sioux Falls
Altrusors, who met on Thursday
noon at Shriver- Johnson's tearoom.
Miss Dahl described the varied,
but always interesting, life of a
young English governess who came
to the United States, married a
minister, and eventually became one
of the leaders in the cultural life
of New England.
Orchestra Presents Second
Concert to Student Audience
The 74 piece college orchestra,
under the direction of R. J. Gu-deryahn,
presented its second concert
of the season for the student body
Nov. 16 at 11 o'clock. The classes
were shortened so that the orchestra
had a full hour for its program.
Director Guderyahn introduced the
various sections of the orchestra to
the student body and demonstrated
the different effects that can be
produced by the sections. Before
each number was played he gave a
short account of the composer's life.
The orchestra played the follow-ing
numbers: "Coronation March"
from "The Prophet" (Meyerbeer) ;
"Overture to the Secret of Su-zanne"
(E. Wolf Perrari) ; "An-dante
Cantabile" for strings ( Tschai-kowsky
) ; "Blue Danube" ( J.
Strauss) ; and "Musical Snuff Box"
(Liadov) .
Kildahl, Knutson Speak
During Week of Special
Chapel Sessions
Seminary Students Coming
College President. to Lead
Hymn Singing During.
Evening Periods
When students and faculty re-turn
to the campus after Thanksgiv-ing
recess they will enter upon one
week of religious emphasis begin-ning
Monday, Nov. 28 and con-tinuing
until Saturday, Dec. 3.
The Rev. J. L. Kildahl, Webster,
and the Rev. Joseph Knutson, Lake
Mills, Ia., will be special speakers
for the week when the aim of the
program will be stimulation of
Christian thought and activity.
Two students from Luther The-ological
seminary, Harry Montgom-ery
of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Rueben
Wangberg, president of the LSU,
have been invited to be guests
throughout the week.
Meetings will be held during the
regular chapel period in the gym
chapel with special sessions every
evenit, tt in Old Main chapel. Dr.
Granskou will lead the hymn sing-ing
during the evening sessions.
Rev. Kildahl is the son of a for-mer
president of St. Olaf college
and faculty member at the Luther
Theological seminary in St. Paul.
Religious Emphasis Week, long
a part of Augustana program, has
always endeavored to guide the stu-dents'
minds into deeper spiritual
consciousness.
U. S. Social Security
Is Clarified by Dunn
Frank Dunn, a representative of
the social security board in Wash-ington,
D. C., gave Augustana stu-dents
a clearer knowledge of the
functions and aspects of the social
security system in a talk here Wed-nesday.
In dealing with subject from a
national standpoint he brought out
the true scope of the system. He
said, "In view of the fact that
benefits are going to start being
paid off in this state on January 1,
it will be more imperative than ever
that the people here should get a
better knowledge of the system as
it really is."
Using concrete illustrations to
bring out his points he explained
how a man would go about getting
assistance under the plan in case
he lost his job. He explained that
the person losing the job must regis-ter
at the employment •office near-est
him and they will investigate
him, that is, find out what his ca-pabilities
and abilities really are.
Then after a two weeks' waiting pe-riod
if he is still jobless the person
will receive aid amounting to one-half
of his last weekly wage before
he lost his job. Since the plan
intends only to tide a person over
a short period of unemployment
there is a restriction upon the
length of time that a person may
receive payments. In this state it is
restricted to 14 weeks.
He said that the fact that there
are two main divisions to the sys-tem
namely, (1 ) the taxes you pay
and (2) the benefits you receive,
the time when the benefits could
be paid had to be postponed until
the taxes you pay had created a
reserve upon which to draw. The
taxes which build up this reserve
are of two kinds according to Mr.
Dunn. They are, an excise tax levied
upon employers and an income tax
levied upon employees.
Mr. Dunn also explained that the
plan took care of partial employ-ment,
blind people, needy people,
dependent children and provides
health insurance and vocational re-habilitation
for those who need it.
Valley City Conclave
Elects Rogness Head
State college was chosen as the
host of the 1939 conference of the
northwest region of the Lutheran
Students association at the annual
meeting held during the weekend of
Nov. 4 at Valley City, N. D.
Burnis Rogness, seminary student
now interne at the First Lutheran
church in Brookings, was elected
president. Rogness is an Augustana
graduate. Prominent in speech cir-cles
here he served as student body
president in 1934-35.
New Members Taken
Into Int'l. Relations
World situations and influence on
foreign trade was the subject dis-cussed
by members of the Interna-tional
Relations club on Tuesday
evening. Georgia Reed and Evans
Nord were the leaders for the pro-gram.
The club took in the fol-lowing
new members: Orville
Thompson, Curtis Beecher, and
Evelyn Amdahl. Clara Chilson, pro-gram
chairman, announced that ten-tative
program subjects and leaders
would be presented at the next meet-ing.
Granskou, Kraushaar Serve S. D. E. A. RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS SPEAKERS
Rev. Joseph Knutson Rev. J. L. Kildahl
First Pioneer Church Leader Passes
Away Leaving Lifetime Record
Bliss In Trailer Is Basis of
New Housekeeping Venture